Office 2007, ssd install size

[Ballatician]

What is your office 2007 install size?

Any tips to make it as small as possible?

Does it absolutely need to be on the C: drive / will it benefit a lot from an SSD boot drive or can it go on the secondary w/ spindle?

Appreciate any insight

 

[schneiderguy]

Mine is only 275MB

edit: that's with Word, Powerpoint, and Excel only

 

[FishAk]

If your SSD is running a SandForce controller, the controller will only write about half the files, since so many of them are the same- or similar enough that it doesn't need all of it. The cravat is that it tells the OS that it wrote the whole thing, so you don't end up with extra usable space from this conservation. But, it's more space for the spare aria- and so, better performance.


I use OpenOffice, since I didn't feel like spending the money for MS. The learning curve was short, and I haven't found anything missing that was on MS Office 2003. The install is 358MB


The advantage to putting the program on the same partition as your OS, is that if everything goes south, it's easy to re-image your OS partition, and still have all your settings, activation, updates...

 

[corkyg]

Mine is the full Office 2007 Pro with everything installed. It comes out to 496,706,039 Bytes, or about 496.7 MB. You can reduce it by curbing graphics, templates, and a lot of support stuff. And, by limiting programs within Office 2007.

I would allow for 300 MB.

 

[Ballatician]

Mine is only 275MB

edit: that's with Word, Powerpoint, and Excel only

Thanks, I also only plan to install Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

If your SSD is running a SandForce controller, the controller will only write about half the files, since so many of them are the same- or similar enough that it doesn't need all of it. The cravat is that it tells the OS that it wrote the whole thing, so you don't end up with extra usable space from this conservation. But, it's more space for the spare aria- and so, better performance.


I use OpenOffice, since I didn't feel like spending the money for MS. The learning curve was short, and I haven't found anything missing that was on MS Office 2003. The install is 358MB


The advantage to putting the program on the same partition as your OS, is that if everything goes south, it's easy to re-image your OS partition, and still have all your settings, activation, updates...

Thanks

I used OpenOffice for some time before and thought it was OK. Well, pretty good for a free program. Unfortunately, I need to install Office 2007 for work.

I don't think putting it on the OS drive for the sake of saving settings is a compelling enough reason for me to put it on the same drive. Though it is a good backup strategy.

Right now I am more concerned with whether it would benefit from the speed boost. Also, for some reason, I always though that office had to be on the same drive as windows.

Btw the drive is an OCZ Vertex, 30Gb and I'm still trying to understand the first section you wrote

 

[Ballatician]

Mine is the full Office 2007 Pro with everything installed. It comes out to 496,706,039 Bytes, or about 496.7 MB. You can reduce it by curbing graphics, templates, and a lot of support stuff. And, by limiting programs within Office 2007.

I would allow for 300 MB.

Thank you! That isn't nearly as big as I feared and probably fine even for my tiny ssd.

 

[FishAk]

When I was more ignorant than I am now, I thought I would be smart and put all my programs on a partition separate from my OS. I read I could get more speed, and less fragmentation that way. I found that most programs still put a significant chunk of files in my C partition as well as my programs partition. Not only did it not save as much room on my OS as I thought it would, when I had to rebuild my OS, I had to re-install everything. The two images of the partitions didn't match up for some reason, and so, didn't work. I decided that what performance- if any- I gained wasn't offset by the hassle.

 

[Ballatician]

When I was more ignorant than I am now, I thought I would be smart and put all my programs on a partition separate from my OS. I read I could get more speed, and less fragmentation that way. I found that most programs still put a significant chunk of files in my C partition as well as my programs partition. Not only did it not save as much room on my OS as I thought it would, when I had to rebuild my OS, I had to re-install everything. The two images of the partitions didn't match up for some reason, and so, didn't work. I decided that what performance- if any- I gained wasn't offset by the hassle.

You make a good point. That would be a huge hassle indeed.

I still have 17 gigs free and since I plan on keeping at least 7 free for updates and all that, I think I can afford a few hundred megs for the office suite.

 

[RebateMonger]

Office 2007 Enterprise edition. Full install. 675 MB. Plus the MSO Cache folder, which allows you to add or remove features or to repair Office: 528 MB. You can have Office remove all those Cache files after the install if you want.

These installs are on spindle hard drives, not SSDs.

 

[Emulex]

do not forget service packs (win7 sp1 almost ready!) these will be huge and require a good bit of space during the process esp with system restore.

same goes for the SP's on office 2007 enterprise. last time i checked i downloaded the multi-language ones and they were huge (4+ gb). lol.

 

[zagood]

Office 2007 Enterprise edition. Full install. 675 MB. Plus the MSO Cache folder, which allows you to add or remove features or to repair Office: 528 MB. You can have Office remove all those Cache files after the install if you want.

In 2007 you need to specify immediately that you want these files removed...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924616
"...you cannot remove the Local Install Source feature after the installation has been completed. The Windows Cleanup Wizard does not include an option to remove this feature."

 

[J3S73R]

You can also redirect most of the commonly used folders quite easily... like Application Data, My docs, pictures etc etc etc

 

[jimhsu]

Office is not a space hog. Adobe creative suite on the other hand...

I usually end up just symlinking most of the adobe apps from a hard disk, and keeping frequently used apps like Photoshop on the SSD.

 

[jimhsu]

If your SSD is running a SandForce controller, the controller will only write about half the files, since so many of them are the same- or similar enough that it doesn't need all of it. The cravat is that it tells the OS that it wrote the whole thing, so you don't end up with extra usable space from this conservation. But, it's more space for the spare aria- and so, better performance.


I use OpenOffice, since I didn't feel like spending the money for MS. The learning curve was short, and I haven't found anything missing that was on MS Office 2003. The install is 358MB


The advantage to putting the program on the same partition as your OS, is that if everything goes south, it's easy to re-image your OS partition, and still have all your settings, activation, updates...

But Sandforce drives already come with so much spare area that you can essentially fill the whole drive without really any performance problems. At least the enterprise line of drives...